What is Artifex?
Ahead of a meaningful release, let's dive into the past, present, and future 🧵👇
Conversation
How to capture DNA of the digital art NFT movement?
Even better how to *make it last*?
That is the Artifex origin story as the calendar turned from 2020 to 2021 and NFTs seemed poised for explosion. Artifex released for the first time in May, 2021.
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Artifex is 100 artists spread across waves such as Concept Art, Photography & Landscape, and Sports & Music.
Each artist:
🎨 Creates a 1/1 metaphorical self portrait
🗿 Collaborates with Artifex to birth a 3D sculpture /100 edition
(Pictured: )
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. is the 39th Artifex artist and 2nd in a wave entitled "Pioneers".
The 1st artist in that wave, released 1 year ago? ❤️
He was a central figure in the birth of Artifex, 1 of the first 2 artists to submit concepts, and a co-curator of Pioneers.
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An "Artifex" refers to the 3D sculpture itself, the brand's unique magic led by Art Director
Essential qualities:
- Real time renderable .glb
- Ready for expression in metaverses (plural)
- ERC-721
- Stored on ipfs *and* backed up on arweave
Go everywhere forever.
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Collector Care Packages:
Own an Artifex? Connect wallet to Artifex.art and access your:
🗿 .glb
🗿 .mp4 sculpture video
🗿 Custom sized Twitter avatar image
🗿 Custom sized Twitter banner image
AR files (.usdz first) are set to be added shortly.
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Display:
Here's an example of several Artifex sculptures on display within the great 's (also an Artifex artist!) gallery:
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Pricing:
1/1: Reserve set in alignment with the artist's preference
3D: Pricing set with a market discount and strong collector relationship in mind across primary and secondary
Today there are 17 "Full Set Collectors", who possess each of the 38 Artifex 3Ds.
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Artifex Unreal:
While Artifex 3Ds go everywhere, the mission is to show what's possible on the bleeding edge.
11 artists currently have 5 experiences, streamable to your browser:
artifex.art/unreal-experie
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Press:
Artifex has stayed under the radar, but it's had several moments in NYC Times Square (opening night), as well as on and
Last week 's Artifex was on display at 's The Gateway at Art Basel 🌀
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Present:
releases today (Thursday) at 5:00pm EST!
Artifex 3D: priced at 0.2 ETH and accessible via Artifex.art and OpenSea
1/1 "Alotta Money - Decentral Eyes": 42 ETH reserve (follows - poetically! - The Coldie Method™️)
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Future:
With every release, the collective becomes more meaningful. Several more are around the corner in 2023.
Creator and history first. Strong fundamentals. Permanence across future expressions of irl / mixed reality / metaverses. Onward and upward!
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